THE police officer, who is the brother of a slain drug lord’s trusted underling, was relieved from his post at the Talisay City Police Station.
Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Eric Noble ordered the transfer of Senior Police Officer 2 Jeffrey Diola to the provincial headquarters pending investigation on Monday, June 5.
“Ngayon panahon ng war on drug. Assumption natin diyan kung polis ka, ang kapatid mo ay ganyan may problema ka rin (With the ongoing war on drugs, there’s the assumption that if you are a police and your brother is involved in drugs, then you are involved in it too),” Noble told reporters.
Noble challenged Diola to clean his name.
Diola's brother Dennis, 48, the underling of slain drug lord Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz, was caught with his common-law wife Manilyn Arquillano, 22, in a drug bust in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City on the night of June 3.
The police officer said he had told his brother to stop his involvement in illegal drug trade before the arrest happened.
Seized from Dennis and Arquillano were P27,000 worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” and a .38 revolver.
Dennis and his partner are ranked third and sixth in the list of high value targets of Police Regional Office-Central Visayas.
They will be charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and illegal possession of firearm. (KAL/VoxPop Cebu)